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...Administrative Board, the committee charged with examining student cases of academic and disciplinary misconduct in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), may come under scrutiny itself this fall...
...response to concerns that students do not have a voice when they go in front of the board. Currently there are no students on the 35-member panel, and those students called before the board are allowed only voiceless “advocates”—FAS affiliates who may be present but may not speak on the students’ behalf—as outside support...
...chairs and directors of undergraduate and graduate study face even more daunting challenges, for they must orchestrate collegial efforts to improve course offerings and advising, enhance training in basic skills, and sharpen the preparation of teaching fellows. Rather than pepper departments with disconnected demands from separate University Hall offices, FAS must ensure that department leaders have real-time information and flexible resources. Starting next year, FAS should give multi-year grants to allow departments to plan and execute coordinated curricular enrichments, and then provide ongoing support for changes that truly enhance student learning...
...this question--to lay down criteria by which we can measure and move toward success—even though more hours of faculty debate will unfold before the last vote on the new system of General Education is tallied in a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS...
Theda Skocpol is the current dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and was the chair of the 2006-07 FAS Task Force on Teaching and Career Development, which offered ideas to support ongoing curricular reforms...